Adriana Badillo, Gear Up: $877,600 in third-year U.S. Department of Education funding for "Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs." Related article: Gear Up for College

Deborah Diep, Center for Demographic Research: $574,420 in third-year County of Orange funding for "Orange County Interests." Total funding to date: $1,709,493.

Catalina Olvera, Graduate Studies: $450,081 in fourth-year funding from the U.S. Department of Education for "Enhancing Post Baccalaureate Opportunities at Cal State Fullerton for Hispanic Students," known as EPOCHS.

Lilivao Tautolo, Student Affairs: $271,051 in fourth-year U.S. Department of Education funding in support of "Student Support Services," part of the federally supported Trio Programs that include Talent Search, Upward Bound and Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement. The funding is used to provide opportunities for academic development, assist students with basic college requirements and to motivate students toward successful completion of their postsecondary education.

Michele M. Wood, Health Science: $76,307 from the University of Maryland for "Comprehensive Message Testing of Imminent Threat Messages for Mobile Devices." Originally funded in 2012, Wood has received a total of $234,780.74.

Sora Tanjasiri, Health Science: $72,321 in supplemental funding from the National Institutes of Health for project "WINCART" and $41,381 in supplemental funding from the National Institutes of Health for "A Pap Test Intervention to Enhance Decision Making Among Pacific Islander Women."

Michelle Berelowitz, Center for Community Collaboration: $49.988 from the Orangewood Children's Foundation for "The 19th Annual Report on the Conditions of Children in Orange County." Related story: Conditions of OC Children Forum Nov. 21

Nikolas Nikolaidis, Biological Science: $6,720 in third-year funding from the University of Illinoise, Urbana-Champaign/National Institutes of Health for "A Singular Opportunity to Determine the Evolutionary Genetics of Retroviral Invasion of a Host Genome." Total award to date: $20,680.